Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Lamade, Louis G. August 22, 1854 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

LOUIS G. LAMADE,
editor and proprietor of 'The Deutscher Volksfuehrer (The German Peoples'
Leader)', of Altoona, the only German paper published in the Juniata valley,
is a son of Dietrich and Caroline (Zuepfle) Lamade, and was born in
Goelshausen, near Bretten, Germany, August 22, 1854. His parents were natives
of Baden, and strict members of the Evangelical Lutheran church. They came to
the United States in the spring of 1867, and settled in Williamsport, where
Dietrich Lamade died on January 1, 1869, when he was in the forty-fourth year
of his age. His widow, who was born in 1826, is still a resident of
Williamsport. To Mr. and Mrs. Lamade were born fourteen children, nine of
whom are still living: Dietrich and Fred are the publishers of the celebrated
Pennsylvania Grit, of Williamsport; John, who is superintendent of a large
planing mill at Bay Mills, Michigan; Charles, a foreman of the same mill;
Louis G.; William, now learning the printing business in the office of the
Grit; Barbara, wife of Fred Kiessling, a merchant tailor of Williamsport;
Kate, who married Henry Tally, of Bay Mills, Michigan; and Elizabeth, wife of
Andrew Waltz, a contractor and builder of Williamsport.
      Louise G. Lamade was reared in Germany until he was thirteen years of
age, when he came with his parents to Willismsport. He received the principal
part of his education in his native land, and after a few months residence in
Williamsport he entered a printing office, where he remained for eight years.
During the latter part of this time he was foreman successively of the
Poitomist and the Times. He left Williamsport and went to Scranton, this
State, where he worked at his trade for six months, and then journeyed to
Harrisburg, which he left in a short time for Newark, New Jersey, at which
place he remained but a few months. He then went to New York city, where he
followed his trade until 1880, when he came to Altoona and became foreman on
the Call, which position he held until 1881. In March of that year he
purchased his present paper, Deutscher Volksfuehrer (The German Peoples'
Leader), from Henry Slep, who is now proprietor of the Mirror. The
Volksfuehrer was first issued by Mr. Slep March 28, 1878. It is an
independent weekly paper, published on Friday of each week, and has a wide
circulation among the German population and those able to read German in this
and adjoining counties. It is a six column folio, carefully edited, and
contains much valuable information in addition news of general interest and
local happenings. Mr. Lamade has added a job printing department to his
office, and is prepared to do all kinds of work in that line.
     In the summer of 1881 Louis G. Lamade married Frances, daughter of
Leonard Soller, of Altoona, and they have a family of four children, two sons
and two daughters: Carl, Lizzie, Katy, and Louis.
      In politics Mr. Lamade is a democrat and served as jury commissioner
from 1889 to 1892, and during 1885 as alderman from the Fourth ward by
appointment of Governor Pattison. He is a member of the German Lutheran
church of Altoona, and of the several German singing societies of the city.
He is also a member of Vandalia Lodge, No. 227, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and Mystic Castle, No. 91, of the Ancient Order Knights of the
Mystic Chain, as well as holding membership in several benevolent
associations. He takes an interest in the material prosperity of Altoona, and
has been treasurer of the Germania Building association for several years. Mr.
Lamade is well qualified as an editor, and has been successful in establishing
a first-class paper of extended circulation and independence in political
affairs.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Annie Whiteman  Annie2ws@aol.com

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